This is a difficult quiz using only one image. It would be much easier if the coin were in hand. Nevertheless, the point of these posts is to let you see coins at high magnification and make you think. Remember that if I comment on a particular guess, IT IS NOT AN ATTACK on the member brave enough to take a guess. It is usually an attempt to help them reconsider their guess. Commenting on a coin image can be difficult. However, except in this case, most of what you need to arrive at the correct answer will be in the OP image. 1. What caused this very unusual (first like this I ever saw) clip?
retained, ie: reglued, clip. It was clipped, and then rolled into a ball (the clip) which then was put thru a superglue machine, and then accidently reattached to the same spot in an effort to hide the clip. Thanks my story, and I'm sticking to it.
So it wasnt a clip in the classic direction, but a clip from something running parallel along the obverse. And it it didnt clean clip it... but left the metal there so it bent over the rim?
call @paddyman98 . Is this a collar cud ? Here is a picture of 1 I got as a secret santa gift back in 2018...
I will also say Small Collar Die Break (Cud) As @spirityoda has shown on a 2002 P Kennedy Half.. Not a incomplete planchet issue.
Occurred as the minted coin was being ejected from the collar. Next press just caught the coin as it exited.
It was still in contact with the die or other part of the machinery as it was being ejected, leaving the deep gouge. The metal from the gouge forming the "cud" on the edge
Metal filled a break in the collar and left a void on the coin at the same time. I've seen many collar breaks but nothing that left a large void resembling a planchet clip on the rim.
